brittle manuscripts from and at St. Catherine's

Steven Avery

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brittle ancient parchment

https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/brittle-manuscripts-at-st-catherines.3350/ Our thread with Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov in 1914 discussed using the condition of the parchment as an indication of age. We know the colour is one factor, but also elements like losing flexibility...
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This will include equipment for temporarily humidifying brittle pages to prevent damage during research or imaging. Without that, some pages would crumble on contact.
 
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Steven Avery

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Likewise, parchment contains a protein called collagen which decays after not many centuries, leaving the parchment shrivelled, cracked and brittle so that it can no longer be handled without serious damage occurring. The collagen of Sinaiticus, however, is largely undecayed, which is why its pages can be handled and turned with no real danger of damage. They would not enjoy this state of freshness if they were anywhere near the 1700 years that are claimed for them. Indeed, their freshness, lack of decay and time-related damage is something that surprised the British Library's technicians when they were allowed to examine them.

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Partly true. It avoids the mold and moisture problem. However, it accelerates the element of becoming more brittle over time. There is no way that a real desert 1650 year old ms. could be anything like Codex Simoneidos.

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